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London : Apud Robertum Littlebury, 1686; 1697, Folio, 2 Frontispieces, 1 Portrait, 3 Volume titles (2 in black/red), 142 (135 full, 7 smaller) plates, rebacked contemporary full leather, with raised bands and spine lable; complete and fine! First Edition (first Issue) of the Collected Works! Content Order of bound works varies, here listed as bound the complete works: 1st. volume : Opera Omnia, Figuris elegantissimis in aes incisis illustrat Tomis Duobus comprehensa. Londini, Prostant apud Robertum Scott, Bibliopolam Regium 1686 , Frontispice, (2 pp.) Magnae Societatiregiae Anglicanae Marcellus Malpighius S.P. (2 pp.) Praefatio (2 pp.) Anatomes Plantarum Idea 15,(1) pp. Anatome Plantarum (2,2), 78 (recte82) pp., 54 plts. Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) was the founder of microscopic anatomy and a pioneer in the study of plant development. He approached the subject through the study of plant tissues." Appendix - De Ovo Incubato Observationes continens (1686) (2, 11, (1) pp., 7 plts. "First accurate description, from the microscopical point of view, of the chick embryo." Garrison-Morton No. 468 (1st.Ed. 1673) Epistolae quaedam (del M. e. dell'Oldenburg) pp.13-35, (1 p.). 2nd. volume : Operum, Tomus Secundus. Londini, Typis M.F. Impensis R. Littlebury, R. Scott, Tbo Sawbridge, & Wells, 1686, (1 p. Titel red/black), (1 p. blanc). Magnae Societati Regiae Anglicanae) Marcelllus Malphighius S.P. (2 pp.). Praefatio (2 pp.9.). (Anatomes Plantarum pars altera) 39 plts. (plates bound behind 'Opera posthuma'): De Seminum Vegetatione 16 pp. De Gallis pp.17-38. De Varriis Plantarum Tumoribus et excrescentiis pp.39-42). De Pilis & Spinis pp.43-46. De Capreolis et Consimilibus Vinculis pp.47-48. De Plantis pp.53-54) De Radicibus Plantarum pp.54-72. De Bombyce (4), 44 pp. (erratic pagination 65-68, 5-44), 12 plts. "Malpighi's work on the silkworm represents the first monograph on an invertebrate and records one of the most striking pieces of research work on his part. He dissected the silkworm under the microscope with great skill and observed its intricate structure; before the appearance of this work the silkworm was believed to have no internal organs." Garrison-Morton No. 293 (1st.Ed. 1669) De Formatione Pulli in Ovo (con Appendice di Epistolae del M. e dell'Oldenbourg 4, 20 pp., 4 plts. "This and the De ovo incubato placed the study of embryology on a sound basis, surpassing in accuracy all other contemporary work on the subject and foreshadowing some of the more important general lines of research in embryology. Malpighi's study of the development of the chicken in the egg went far beyond the work of Harvey and Fabrici, dealing with the internal structures to an unprecedented extent: his chief discoveries, illustrated in his four beautifully detailed plates, were the vascular area embraced by the terminal sinus, the cardiac tube and its segmentation, the aortic arches, the somites, the neural folds and neural tube, the cerebral and optic vesicles, the protoliver, the glands of the prestomach, and the feather follicles. According to Adelmann, Malpighi illustrated very clearly the three primary brain vesicles, and then the five secondary brain vesicles (along with the two optic vesicles)." Garrison-Morton No.469 (1st.Ed.1673) Epistolae Anatomicae: a) De Cerebro 12 pp., 2 plts.* b) De Lingua pp.13-20, 3 plts.* c) De externo Tactus organo pp.21-32. d) De Omento, Pinguedine & Adiposis pp.33-50. Malpighi's second work, which is composed of letters addressed to his colleagues Carlo Fracassato and Giovanni Borelli, followed by Fracassato's commentary. In De lingua, Malpighi reported peeling two layers from the surface of the tongue and thereby exposing the papillary body, in which he distinguished three orders of papillae (or sensory receptors), and speculated that these could be stimulated by "sapid" particles dissolved in the saliva. His treatise entitled De . Seller Inventory # 62710
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